Topic: Law & Courts — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-15 12:28 UTC+10:00] [Wang Fuk Court] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Justice David Lok cautions against turning the panel into a Commission of Inquiry with statutory powers at this stage
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[2026-04-15 12:25 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Broadcaster Tim Blackwell will fight an application for a final apprehended domestic violence order sought by police to protect a woman, as his lawyer said he continues to have the support of his employer.
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[2026-04-15 12:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) -- American YouTuber Johnny Somali, who sparked outrage in South Korea two years ago after kissing a statue symbolizing Korean victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, was sentenced by a court Wednesday to six months in prison and remanded in custody.
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[2026-04-15 11:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Lionel Messi finds himself at the center of a new lawsuit filed in Florida after no-showing for a pair of friendlies last year with the Argentina national football team.
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[2026-04-15 11:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Donald Trump's administration plans to launch next Monday the system it will use for issuing refunds to American importers for $166 billion the companies paid in tariffs that the US Supreme Court struck down in February as unlawful.
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[2026-04-15 11:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Zak Butters (centre) has been found guilty of abusing an umpire. (Getty Images: AFL Photos/Michael Willson)
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[2026-04-15 10:59 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Victorian election has been plunged into chaos after the High Court ruled the state’s campaign-funding laws are unconstitutional.
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[2026-04-15 10:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Media boss Antony Catalano has been charged with assault. (AAP: Mick Tsikas)
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[2026-04-15 09:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A disgraced UCLA gynecologist is heading back to prison after admitting to sexually abusing patients, closing a yearslong legal saga that drew accusations from hundreds of women.
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[2026-04-15 08:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A divided appeals court panel ordered District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday to end a contempt probe into Trump administration officials involved in migrant deportation flights – determining the jurist abused his discretion in launching the criminal inquiry.
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[2026-04-15 08:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An anti-white maniac who sucker-punched a TikTok influencer, assaulted two other women and berated a Jewish couple in a crazed spree of hate and violence will spend at least three years behind bars, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.
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[2026-04-15 08:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the US Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.
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[2026-04-15 08:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Camp director Mary Liz Easton is questioned during a hearing on a suit against Camp Mystic in the 459th State District Court in Austin, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Mikayla Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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[2026-04-15 07:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The young Texas man who authorities said traveled to San Francisco to firebomb Sam Altman’s mega-mansion wrote a manifesto saying he must “lead by example” in killing the OpenAI founder, court documents show.
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[2026-04-15 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-04-15 06:59 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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[2026-04-15 06:54 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenter in the Memphis area
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[2026-04-15 06:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: James Heaps appears in the Los Angeles Superior Court, June 26, 2019. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
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[2026-04-15 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A United States federal appeals court has blocked a lower court judge from pursuing contempt proceedings against President Donald Trump’s administration over last year’s deportation of Venezuelan immigrants.
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[2026-04-15 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Brooklyn man who spent 30 years in prison the murder of a Hofstra University coach was forced to confess after a torturous 14-hour session where he was deprived of water and access to an attorney, an explosive new lawsuit claims.
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[2026-04-15 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Spain’s government has approved an amnesty programme that will allow an estimated 500,000 undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status.
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[2026-04-15 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Knesset Finance Committee convened on Tuesday ahead of a vote to approve the transfer of NIS 98 million to haredi (ultra-Orthodox) educational institutions, after the funds had been halted by the High Court for being transferred unlawfully without prior committee approval.
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[2026-04-15 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: New, gross remarks allegedly made by Harvey Weinstein were dramatically revealed by prosecutors Tuesday — just moments before his third Manhattan sex crimes trial kicked off with jury selection.
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[2026-04-15 05:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The New Jersey driver accused of drunkenly killing beloved NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother claims prosecutors used a “half-truth” to “mislead” the grand jury about his blood-alcohol content, court documents show.
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[2026-04-15 05:03 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-04-15 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Sue Higginson has been a lawyer and an environmental campaigner, and now she wants to lead the Greens in NSW into a new era by launching a populist left-wing alternative to the surging One Nation vote.
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[2026-04-15 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Austin district judge on Monday ordered the state’s Historically Underutilized Business Program rules be temporarily reinstated, meaning women- and minority-owned business owners can qualify for the state’s HUB program again for now.
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[2026-04-15 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lonna Drewes joins her lawyer Lisa Bloom at a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, April 14, 2026, to detail allegations of sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, after Swalwell exited the California governor’s race and said he’ll resign his seat in Congress. The AP typically does not identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they identify themselves publicly.
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[2026-04-15 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Matt Cobo, F.B.I. San Francisco Acting Special Agent in Charge, right, speaks next to San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew during a news conference, Monday, April 13, 2026, in San Francisco. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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[2026-04-15 03:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The restraining order request that was filed against Puka Nacua by the woman who accused the Rams star of biting her earlier this year was formally dismissed on Tuesday morning.
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[2026-04-15 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-04-15 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Actor Alec Baldwin revealed he wants to retire from acting after the fallout of Halyna Hutchin’s tragic shooting on the set of his 2025 Western movie, Rust.
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[2026-04-15 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O governo da Espanha aprovou nesta terça-feira (14/04) uma regulamentação extraordinária para conceder autorizações de residência e trabalho a cerca de meio milhão de migrantes em situação irregular que já se encontram no país.
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[2026-04-15 02:46 UTC+10:00] [Munich court] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Zhongyi J. repeatedly drugged, assaulted and filmed his girlfriend, sometimes sedating her so heavily that she stopped breathing
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[2026-04-15 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: This week, the US Federal Appeals Court reinstated a $656 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in a lawsuit brought by American victims and their families over terrorist attacks in Israel.
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[2026-04-15 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Three months after the chaotic 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Final, the Moroccan legal system has issued its verdict.
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[2026-04-15 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An appeals chamber of the Berlin Regional Court has decided that a violent attack on Jewish student Lahav Shapira, 33, was not antisemitic.
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[2026-04-15 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The husband of missing Michigan mom Lynette Hooker was previously charged with child abuse after he allegedly pinned his daughter up against a wall because he was furious her mom was teaching her creationism, court documents show.
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[2026-04-15 01:25 UTC+10:00] [Migration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Spain’s Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved a royal decree that will give legal status to more than 500,000 undocumented migrants who currently reside in the country.
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[2026-04-15 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)
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[2026-04-15 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The retrial of Diego Maradona's medical team opens in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, one year after a scandal involving a judge on the case caused the first trial to collapse.
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[2026-04-15 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kanye West is being sued for allegedly sucker-punching a man at the Chateau Marmont last year, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.
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[2026-04-15 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Scientists feel their pain — finally.
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[2026-04-15 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Brandon “Bug” Hall was arrested in Ohio and charged with failure to appear for a court date from more than a year ago.
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[2026-04-15 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.
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[2026-04-15 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.
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[2026-04-15 00:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore appears in court in Pittsfield Township, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 17 2026. (Jacob Hamilton/Ann Arbor News via AP, File)
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[2026-04-15 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dalma Maradona, right, and Gianinna Maradona, second left, daughters of late soccer star Diego Maradona attend the first day of the trial over allegations of homicide by negligence against the medical team that treated their father in San Isidro, Argentina, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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[2026-04-15 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice is set to hear petitions on Wednesday seeking to force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from his post, in a case that has sharpened into a test of how far a minister may go before political involvement in policing becomes unlawful interference in law enforcement itself.
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[2026-04-15 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Earlier this year, South Africa took the unprecedented step of asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to rule whether Israel's brutal military assault and starvation campaign in Gaza amounted to genocide. In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Pandor, who served as South Africa's former minister of international relations until June 2024, discusses why her country took Israel to court.
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